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Hafez Payot Mn-N-Nasim, Part 2.

Salon Baham-N-N-N-A-N-Sim, welcome to the second part of our study of Hoffa's beautiful poem,

Hayo Manassim, a perfect poem for the Noor's holiday.

In the last episode, I talked to musician Thadit Chafinuti

about the overall meaning and message of the poem.

If you haven't had a chance to listen to that episode yet,

go back and listen to it before listening to this episode.

Now, like we mentioned in the last episode, Thaddy and I have been working on this poetry

project for years, analyzing poems and the language and poems together and publishing them

on the Chai and Conversation podcast. And even though we've covered so many poets from different

time periods, this is the first one we've

done by arguably the most slotted and most revered Iranian poet, Phaas. And I have to admit,

of all the poems we've done, I find this one the most challenging. Even after my last episode

with Fatid, I don't completely feel like I have a grip on this poem,

but I know that as we go through it, word by word, phrase by phrase, my understanding of the poem

will change and my relationship with it will change as well.

Like we said in the last episode, Hoffez's poems are often used as a kind of fortune-telling

device as a way to give advice for life's greatest questions.

And I think as we become more familiar with his poetry, it will become more clear why that is.

So many of the poems contain lines of wisdom that can be applied to any situation.

Am I memorizing these poems?

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